Centrifugal fan.



W. H. CARRIER.

CENTHIFUGAL FAN.

Appucmmn msn rss. 7. um.

Patented Jan. 4, 1916.

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W. H. CARRIER.

CENTRIFUGAL FAN.

APPLICATION meu Fes. 7. |914,

frv a@ my@ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIS H. CARRIER, 0F BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB TO BUFFALO FORGE COMPANY, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

C'ENTIRIFUGAL FAN.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 4, 1916.

To allwwm it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIS H. Cananea` a citizen of vthe United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and Improvement in Centrifugal F ans, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to centrifugal fans of the multivane type which have numerous vanes or blades arranged in an annular series and surrounding a central intake chamber of relatively large diameter open at, one end for the entrance of the air, which is discharged through the spaces or channels between' the blades or vanes.

More particularly the invention relates to improvements in conoidal multivane fans of the kind disclosed in my copending application Serial No. 650,460, Bled September 20, 1911, in which the blades have the form of a portion of the surface of a cone The object of the invenion is to producef, by a new aria nge1 ment an pro rtioning o the blades` a multivane cenlifugal fan which has the same mechanical advantages as the fan of said prior application and which at the same time is designed so as to equalize the combined static and kinetic effects rodueed along the entire length of the b des and thereby equalize the discharge of the air along the length of the blade and give the maximum eiciency; so as to give practically uniform axial and radial velociti of the air through the fan wheel; and so that the air is picked up by the blades with a minimum loss by shock or impact of the blades with the air, thereby increasing the presure developed and reducing the power required to drive the fan.

In accordance with this invention the fan wheel is designed to produce its effect through the combined firmare-producing and velocity-producing actions of the irnpeller upon the Streams of air guided between blades concaved forward sides The construction and principle of operation of the fan are in this respect quite different from the prior narrow blade type of mnltivane fans, in which the radial depth of the blades is small as compared with their axial length, and which depend chieliy on the kinetic energy imparted to the air, that is, the energy manifested alone in the velocity of the air passing through the channels between the blades. The fan dis closed and claimed in this application differs from these narrow blade fans in its performance characteristics, in that there is a considerable static pressure produced in the blades themselves, while in the narrow blade fan there is substantially none. This static pressure is produced through centrifuga] force in excess of that required to produce the velocity through the channels between the blades, and the amount of centrifugal l -force produced depends upon the radial depth of the blades as compared with the diameter of the wheel. The present fan is preferably similar to that of said prior application in the employment of blades of conoidal form, but diifers therefrom in the form and arrangement of the blades The outer edge or tip of the blade preferably lies substantially in a cylindrical surface concentric with the axis of the wheel and by preference is coplanar with the axis of the wheel, while the inner edge, or heelis preferably non-coplanar with the axis and is arranged with the inlet end thereof in advance of the opposite or disk end thereof. ln order to equalize the volumetric discharge throughout the length of the blade. the angle of discharge at the tip of the blade increases from the inlet end toward the op posite end of the blade which is the angle between a tangent to the inner surface of the blade at the point of delivery and a tangent to the circle of revolution of that point on the side toward which the blade is moving, which gives a greater kinetic energy at the narrow inlet end of the blade suicient to overcome the dilference in static preure, which is in favor of the wider opposite end of the blade. The angle of incidence. that. is, the angle at which the moving blade strikes the air, also preferably increases graduallv from the inlet toward the opposite end of the blade to compensate for the decreasing speed of the heel as it recedes from the inlet end and the increasin;r radial velocity of the air. The inlet area of the spaces between the blades is decreased tovvard the driving disk in such a manner as to give practically uniform axial and radial components of velocity at corresponding distances from the axis of the wheel, thus resulting in uniformity of volumetric discharge.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of a fan showing one arrangement of blades embody ing the invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the fan as seen from the inlet end. Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively end andY face elevations. enlarged, of one of the fan blades. showing by broken lines the development of the blade Figs. 5 and show slightly modilied forms of blades The fan wheel consists of the blades and a suitable rotary carrier by which they are supported, The carrier preferably consists of a d'k A provided with a hub a by which it is secured 'to a drive shaft a'. The annir la; series of blades or vanes B are secured at one .end to and project laterallyfrom Said dislnfthe opposite ends of the blades being held in place by suitable means, consisting preferably of a ring or band C to which the ends of the blades are attached. The blades canbeatcachedtothediskand bandCin any suitable way.

Each blade is preferably ofconoidal form, that is, it has the shape of a portion of the surface of a cone. and issn-ranged withits ooncaved side facing forwardly as regards the direction of rotation-of the wheel, and its wide or base end is to the disk, The broken line circle in- Fig. 3, and the broken converging lines fC-W2, Fig. 4,'

indite the conecompleted., W- 3 being thefaxis of the cone. The blades which sl1rround or bound a central intake chamber increase in depth from the to the disk endof the wheel., being of much greater radial depth at the disk end than at the inlet end. The outer edge or tip b-b of the blade preferably li'substantially in a cylindrical surface concentric with the axis of the wheel, coplanar with said axswhile the inner edge or heel Z22-b3 lies substantially in a conical surface concentric with the axle of the wheel and is preferably, but not necessarily, non-coplanar with the axis, beingr arranged with the inlet end b2 thereof leading the disk end. Instead of this preferred amngcment, the heel of the blade cam if desired, be ooplanar with the axis of the wheeL as shown in Fig. 5, or it can be arranged with Vits disk end leading as Shown in Fig. 6.

In order to the total static and kinetic eects along the length of the blade, the angle of discharge at the tip of the blade is made to increase from the inlet toward the disk end of blade` as indicated 1g, 3, where .fry indicat the disangle at the end and x'-b'-y the corresponding angle at the disk end. The corresponding kinetic effects produced at the two ends of the blade are indicated by the resultant velocity diagrams 3 5-1/-2 and .rl-bwy-z', in which the resultant velocities at the inlet and disk ends are respectively .f-b and s-b. This varying discharge angle in a conoidal blade is secured by cutting the blade so that the tip edge b-b' does not coincide with an element of the cone but extends at an angle 'to the elements of the cone intersecting the e Ue.

The variation o1' the angle of incidence at the heel of the blade, in order that the air may be picked up with a minimum loss by shock along the entire length of the heel of the blade, is effected in a similar manner bv making the heel Zia-b at an angle to instead of coincident with the elements of the cone intersecting said If :v2-b2, Fig. 3, represents the peripheral velocity of the heel at the vinlet end b2, then l '-y3 repre` sents the radial velocity of the air at this point. and .z---yz represents the correct angle of incidence for the heel at the inlet end of the blade. Similarly if a-ba represents the peripheral velocity of the heel at the disk end b3, then IJs-g3 represents the radial velocity of the air at this point` and :z:-"-b=-y3 represents the correct angle of incidence of the heel at the end b.

D represents a casing in which the fan wheel is arranged to rotate when the fan is to be used for producing prsure This casing is preferably of .the volute shape shown, having an inlet opening or eye d at the side thereof adjacent to the inlet end of the fan wheel. and a tangential discharge or outlet d. The diameter of the inlet opening is preferably substantially equal to the internal diameter of the band C of the fan wheel. lThe fan wheel can be journaled to rotate in the casing in any suitable way. A casing of any other suitable construction may be used. or, if the fan is to be used only to exhaust air from an inclosure, the casinar may be dispensed with, and the fan wheel mounted with its inlet end connecting with a tube or opening leading from the inclosure.

l claim as my invention:

1. A centrifugal fan wheel having a plurality of propelling blades each having a concaved front face and an angle of dis charge at the tip of the blade which increases from the inlet end toward the opposite end of the blade.

2. A lcentrifugal fan wheel having a plurality of propelling blades each having a concaved front face and an angle of dis charge at the tip of the blade and an angle of incidence at the heel of the blade each of which increases from the inlet end toward the opposite end of the blade` 3. A centrifugal fan wheel having a pluralit-*v of propelling blades each having substantiailv the form of a portion of the sur face of a cone and being arranged with its tip edge lying substantially in a cylindrical surface co-axial with the axis of the. wheel.

4. A centrifugal fan wheel having a plurality of propelling blades each having substantiallev the form of a portion of the sur face of al cone and being arranged with its tip edge substantially coplanar with the axis of the wheel 5L A centrifugal fan wheel having a plurality of propelling blades each having substantially the form of a portion of the surface of a cone and being arranged with its tip edgelying Substantially in a cylindrical surface .co-axial with the axis of the wheel and extending at anangle to the elements of the cone intersecting said edge 6. A centrifugal fan wheel'having a plu ralitv of propelling blades each having substantially the form of a portion of the surface of a cone and beinguarranged it ti edge lvm," g substantia in a cy rica suli'face cti-axial with the sixis of the wheel and its heel noncoplanar with said axis.

T.' A centrifugal fan wheel haring a plurality f propelling blades each having substantially the form of a portion of the sur face of a cone and being arranged with its tip edge substantially coplanar with the axis of the wheel and its heel non-coplanar with said axis.

8. A centrifugal fan wheel having a plurality of propelling blades each having substantialljr the form of a portion of the surface of a cone and being arranged with its tip edge lying substantially in a cylindrical surface co-aal with the axis of the wheel and its heel edge lying substantially in a conical surface coaxial with the axis of the wheelz said tip and heel edges lying in different planes.

9. A centrifugal fan Wheel having a plurality of propelling blades each having substantally the form of a portion of the surface of a cone and being with its tip edge lying substantially in a cylindrical surface co-axial with the axis of the wheel, and with its heel edge non-coplanar with said axis, the inlet end of said heel leading the opposite end thereof.

10. A centrifugal fan wheel having a plurality of propelling blades each having substantially the form of a portion of the surface of a cone and being arranged 1:vith its tip edge substantially coplanar with the axis of thc wheel, both the tip and heel edges of the blade being at an angle to the elements of the cone intersecting said edges.

11- A centrifugal fan wheel having a plu of Vpropelling blades each having substantially the form of a portion of the snrface of a cone and being arranged with its tip edge lying substantially in a cylindrical surface co-.axial with the axis of the Wheel and coplanar with said axis, both the tip and' heel edges of the blade being at an angle to the elements of the cone intersecting said edges.

12. A centrifugal fan wheel having a pluralit;7 of propelling blades each hang nibstantially the form of a portion of the sur face of a cone, the axis of which is oblique to the axis of the wheel, the tip edge of said blade lying substantially in a cylindrical surface co-axial with the axis of the wheel.

13. A centrifugal fan wheel having a plu rality of propelling blades each having substantially the form of a portion of the surface of a cone. the axis of which is oblique to the axis of the wheel', the tip edge of said blade being substantially copi-anar with the axis of the wheel and the heel edge of said blade being non-coplanar with the axis of the wheel.

1.4. A centrifugal fan wheel having a pluof propelling blades each having substantially the form of a portion of the surface of a cone and being arranged with its tip edge lying Substantially in a cylindrical surface coaxial with the axis of the wheel, said 'blade having an angle of discharge at its tip which increa frcm.the inlet end of the blade toward the opposite end thereof.

15. A centrifugal fan wheel having a plurality of propelling blades each having sub stantially the form of a portion of the surface of a cone and being arranged with its tip edge substantially parallel to and coplanar with the axis of the wheel, said blade having an angle of discharge at its tip which increases from the inlet end of the blade toward the opposite end thereof.

16. A centrifugal fan Wheel having a plurality of propelling blades each having substantially the form of a portion of the surface of a cone and being arranged with its tip edge lying substantially in a cylindrical surface co-axial With the axis of the wheel, 11o said blade having an angle of incidence at the heel of the blade which increases from the inlet end of the blade toward the oppo site end thereof.

17. A centrifugal fan Wheel having a plu- 115 ralityy of propelling blades each having substantiallv the form of a portion of the snrface of a cone and being arranged with its tip edge lying substantially in a cylindrical surface co-axial with the axis of the wheel 120 md with its heel edge I ving substantially inV a conical surface co-axial with said axis, said blade having an angle of incidence at the heel of the blade which increases from the inletend of the blade toward the opp0- 125 site end thereof.

18. A centrifugal fan wheel having a plurality of propelling blades each having substantially the form of a portion of the surface of a cone and being arranged with its 13o tip edge lying substantially in a cylindrical surface coaxial with the axis of the wheel and with its heel edge lying substantially in a conical surface coaxial with said axis7 said blade having an angle of discharge at the tip and an angle of incidence at the heel each of which increases from the inlet end of the blade toward the opposite end thereof.

19. A centrifugal fan wheel having-a plurality of propelling blades each having substantially the form of a portion of the snrface of a cone and being arranged with its tip ed sunaiitiallv coplanar with the axis o the wheel, nid with its heel e nonecplanar with said axisand lyingsu stantiallv in a conical surface co-axial with said said blade having an angle of discharge atthe tipV and an angle of incidence at the heel each of which increases from the inlet end of the blade toward the opposite end thereof.

20. A centrifugal fan wheel having a lu rality ox propelling blades each of w ich inereas in radial depth from the inlet end thereof toward the opposite end thereof and igmaissof has a concaved forward face, said blade being arranged with its tip edge lying substantially in a cylindrical surface co-axial with the axis of the wheel and having an angle of discharge ijvhich increases from the inlet end of the blade toward the opposite end thereof.

21. A centrifugal fan wheel having a plurality of propelling blades each of which incream in radial depth from the inlet end thereof toward the opposite end thereof and has a concaved forward face, said blade be ing arranged with its tip edge substantially coplanar with the axis of the wheel and with its heel edge non-coplanar with said axis, said blade having an angle of discharge and an angle of incidence each of which increases from the inlet end of the blade toward the opposite end thereof.

Witness my hand, this 3rd day of February. 1914.

WILLIS H. CARRIER.

Witnesses:

H. C. RICE, Cannes Canaux.

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It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,166,659, granted Junuaryl, 1916, pon t-he application of Willis H. Carrier, of Buffalo, New York, for an m provemexit in Centrifugal Fans, er1-fore appear in the printed pecification requiring correction follows: Page 1, lnlet83, after the Word blade insert the clause which 'is the angle between a tangent to the 'inner surface of the balade at the point of delivery and a tangent to the circle of revolution of tuzt point on the side toward which the blade'is moving; same page, line 85, strike out all after the word blade"` to and including `the worcl moving, line 90; and that the said Lettere -Ifatem; should be read with these corrections thereiu that the same may conform to the record of vthe case in the Patent Office. i.

Signed and sealed this 1st day of February, A. D., 1916.

[SEAL] J. T. NEWTON,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. Cl. 230-1 1 

